Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Alrighty, the time has come! Spoke Art is proud to present the West Coast debut of their hit art show, Quentin vs. Coen, this Thursday night (June 2nd) at their new gallery space in San Francisco! They'll have a bevy of new prints, paintings and sculpture as well as some of the classic works that were on display two months ago at the New York City show! They've got free goodies to give away all night long as well as a brand new video from the New York show, read below!

Check out the debut of the new prints by Rhys Cooper, Brian Methe, State of Shock Studios, Oliver Barrett above

Tim Doyle has created several new works for Round Two, including this Big Lebowski handbill set previewed above!

I can't show you the entire thing just yet, but the first 50 people to show up on Thursday night will receive free signed and numbered uncut prints!

If you don't feel like lining up, or if you can't make it that early, they'll be giving away a hundred or so cut mini prints all night long! Select online orders will also receive free cut handbills in the weeks to come, stay tuned for more info!

Dave Hunter is very proud to present this poster for Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performing at Royal Albert Hall in London May 26, 27, 29, 30 & June 1, 2011. Designed and printed at the new Gammalyte Press in Forest Knolls, CA, This Fine Art Rock Print has 8 different screens that were hand printed one at a time over a period of 3 1/2 days with #1 assist by Ron Donovan & LuLu on my newly acquired M&R Saturn screen print press. Each pigmented color was custom blended, giving this print extra vibrancy, texture and depth by using a metallic under-base and a secret recipe gloss overcoat that shimmers and subtly shifts the Gammachrome™ tinted colors from different viewing angles and light sources.

Stay tuned for a very limited release of some Artist Proofs a few days after the shows are over.

Zombie Liquorice thought it would be great to make a grind-house style movie poster that would feature every single woman to ever grace the front of a Zombie Liquorice shirt. This poster is the result of that idea. The artist is Corlen Kruger.

Limited edition of only 50

Poster measures 18"x24" and is a giclée print - ships in a sealed poster tube.

This is the second release in the series of Reagan and Friends prints from Shepard Fairey. 18 x 24″ Screen Print Signed and Numbered Edition of 450, $55. A portion of the proceeds go to a campaign finance reform organization. Printed on off-white paper (not the usual Speckletone). On sale today at a random time at ObeyGiant.com

In case you were not able to attend Olly Moss' Paper Cuts show at Gallery1988 you can now see almost all the pieces online. This will be the only chance to see them since the show has closed and they are now in the possession of the people that bought them.

Rattus is a 14x14 3-color signed/numbered screen print limited to a run of 100. the 2 greens glow, but the main rat glows the brightest! $30 (+shipping) The first 50 orders get a free glow in the dark 7"skull print!

Years (indeed, centuries) before scientists toyed with the notion of an alternate universe or two, there were painters like Matt Gordon who happily envisioned the flora, fauna, and (for want of a better word) that would be found in such new and colorful territories. This work is a perfect example. We have three creatures that fall nicely within the complementing categories of crypto-zoology and psychological archetypes - and with a nice dash of pop-culture referencing thrown in for free.

Some DNA has obviously been thrown into the blender - and thanks, but we'll leave the... species-scramble decipherment to someone else! Is it an advance party of aliens in our neighborhood or a hunting trip on some faraway planet? Who/what is that guy bearing arms and wearing a somewhat worn homage to Hanna-Barbera? Like many artists working in this genre, Gordon is benignly playing with the stuff of matter here and creating lush landscapes enhanced by fresh mythologies. Yabba-Dabba-Doo!

All prints are Signed & Numbered by the Artist and come with a Certificate of Authenticity from 1xRUN.

History:Since August 2009, the relentless Jason Noble has been in treatment for cancer.The seriously excellent news is that he has been stable, while showing significant signs of improvement since all this started nearly 2 years ago.Please visit this website for details of his recovery: www.caringbridge.org/visit/jasonnoble

This collection of 17 art-prints are interpretations of innumerable subjects inspired by Jason. The artists involved are all directly or in-directly related to him... be it through music, art, friendship, or mutual admiration.

This is the 2nd print from Dan Mumford's Horror Movies Series. These prints were commissioned for the London Film & Comic Con 2011. Dusk is the blue regular edition of 100, priced at £30 & Dawn is the brown Variant edition of 50, priced at £50. Both are 18" by 24" inches, hand numbered and signed. These silkscreen prints has been created using 8-colors and one screen of spot varnish, the result is fantastic.

Around this time last year, Burlesque of North America closed up their First Amendment gallery with an exhibit and print release from Minneapolis artist Greg Gossel. They love Greg's brightly-colored collages made from repurposed snippets of pop culture. It turns out you guys love his work as well since his last two prints, "Crash Landing" and "Midnight" both sold out fairly quickly. Here are two brand new art prints designed by Greg and screenprinted by Ben LaFond, available exclusively through Burlesque!

Brian Ewings first gig poster of 2011 is on sale now.This is for the Black Angels. Super rad band if you're into the stoner, psych, shoe gazer rock type stuff. Brian mixed his love for Art Nouveau, 60's Rock Posters and Pin-Up to design this poster.

When the light hits it the underprinting shows through the black and adds a really cool texture to an otherwise flat background.

Derek Gabryszak just did a poster for comedian Al Madrigal. It was created for his run of shows at the DC Improv this weekend (May 26-29).

The poster is 4 hand-pulled colors, at 16"x20", on French 100lb. Starch White Speckletone, and has an edition of 45 prints which were available at the shows this weekend and a number of prints will go up for sale on his site http://thatsthewayitgoes.com at noon eastern time on Monday May 30th.

Framing your own art and hanging it on the wall isn't difficult, but if you want to swap out the artwork in the frame for a new look, it can be a bit of a pain. Here's how you can modify a standard frame to let you switch out the contents as often as you like without taking it down.

Lilla wrote in to Ikea Hacker that she wanted a way to easily switch out the contents of a frame she used to display her children's artwork without taking it down, taking it apart, and putting it back together when she was finished.

It was pretty easy: she removed the metal clips, glued the acrylic face of the frame to the inside, and glued three thin square bars to three of the sides to give the frame some depth. Since she only added the bars to three of the sides, the fourth side was left open for easy access. She cut a new backing for the now-deeper frame from cardboard, and attached it to the bars.

She used an Ikea Nyttja frame, but you can apply the hack to almost any frame. Plus, the whole project only takes a few minutes once you have everything you need. Do you change the art on your walls often enough to make a hack like this worthwhile? Let us know in the comments.

This body of work is inspired by the classic Playboy covers from the 1960's and 1970's. being in elementary school during that time, the Playboy magazine was my introduction to the female body, the July 1970 issue to be specific. since then figure drawing has become a passion of mine and is the focal point of all my work. These pieces are a combination of formative year impressions and fundamentally strong drawings. I chose the grease pencils to work with because quite frankly nothing else would work, fortunately i like working with them. the Playboys themselves i purchased on Ebay. This is my second group of Playboy drawings, the first 40 were in a show in Hamburg Germany at the Feinkunst Kruge.

His new art print is titled Insurmountable. It is signed and numbered offset print, edition of 300. 25" x 12"

Todd Slater released a couple of crazy posters from Gen Ween. The posters are 18 x 24 – 4 color silkscreen – S/N edition of 90 – For this series Todd combined parts of familiar and iconic cartoon characters from Gener’s youth (and his own) into a one of a kind super mutant.Buy them HERE

So, some of you may know that in another life, by another name, I swam for Cal Berkeley. I had some great teammates and we were always very competitive, but we were never able to attain that elusive goal: The National Championship. Well, this year, and for the first time since 1980, the Cal Men's Swim Team won a national title! I flew out to Minneapolis and had the privilege of being there among over 60 Cal Swimming alumni to watch our boys do what had not been done in over 30 years! Not only that, but I had watched our women do the same thing one week prior, giving us an unparalleled dual-team victory!

Naturally, I wanted to celebrate this momentous occasion in the only way I knew how, by making a rock poster! So here it is, to any Cal fans or collectors of the disordinary. The Cal Swimming Victory Print, complete with the names of all the swimmers and coaches who were part of both of these historic teams.

The print itself is a almost totally metallic foil 5 color silkscreen. It was printed with all the care and dedication that a project of this personal importance deserves. Give yourself a little piece of Victory for $35, shipping included.

If you want one shoot him an email at effzio () gmail.com Change the () to @ and no spaces.

Shown above is one of Max Dalton's prints for this show. Now it’s time for a Coen’s revenge, and Max is going with two works in this opportunity. Here’s one of them, a rug from The Big Lebowski. A limited edition of copies will be available during and after the show at Spokeart’s store.